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YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos (piunikaweb.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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These offer customization like colors, text styling and positioning and are used to distinguish who is speaking or for karaoke subs and are now potentially being lost forever.

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[–] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

While I'm not quite sure about the exact reasons for the removal, here are some probable guesses:

  • it's a bug
  • the unsupported, internal format - that allows for pretty much everything - is in some way exploitable
  • It's getting replaced by something better/standardized as the current solution doesn't seem to always work properly in YT's apps
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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    On the last point, it's probably not for something better or standardized, It's gonna be to push the AI captioning and dubbing.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    What have auto-generated/AI caption contents to do with the general format captions???

    YT has auto-generated captions now for years, so why would they remove an unsupported, internal format because of that?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    the unsupported, internal format - that allows for pretty much everything - is in some way exploitable

    It prevents AI summaries of the video from including all the video content. Obvious solution: remove the information missing from the summary from the video itself. Now they match! /s

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